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January 07th, 2009 | Categoria: xn--btvw8bh0b.com
  • I'm a big videogame/history buff.

    I must admit it was from reading samurai novels and playing too much ninja turtles that I got into kendo, but I was thinking about a particular game. Virtua fighter supposedly has the greatest in game protrayal of "bajiquan" of any game, so it interested me. Besides the fact that the game is totally fun, I like the historical context.

    ANYWAY I was thinking about the "kumite" mode in which you play your character, and depending on your real skill (i.e. you can kick butt, or you can barely do a hadoken), you get a kyu/dan grade (just like kendo).

    Now, I kick butt at virtua fighter (lion all the way!) but I noticed alot of beginners come to message boards and chat rooms complaining that they are stuck at shodan. I must admit that I too I had a hard time getting past that rank.

    now to the point of my topic (sure took me a while, huh?). I was thinking if the "hill" of shodan is the same in real life? I mean as of now, I am only yonkyu (and i've been that way for a year or two :ko: ) but I noticed that a few of my friends have been at shodan for a while. Now I dont know if its just because they've been missing kendo because of college or whatever but it got me to thinking about my favorite fighting game..

    The case with the game is that when you hit nidan, everything gets easier. Now, i'm sure that hachidan is a much harder test than shodan (in real life), but in the game the case with players is usually that:

    1. They practice hard, learn shun-di's best throw move, and get past shodan

    or

    2. They get stuck at shodan forever and give up, or settle with that.

    and its that very situation that I wanted to discuss. Is shodan the "cut off" rank?

    thoughts?


  • i've heard a saying for this called "career shodon" they call it this because of bad abits practiced early on, it makes it very difficult to progress beyond shodon. and once you get passed shodon, ive also heard that thats when the magic truely starts. i wouldnt know though being as im not even in bogu. im a noob with a hundred posts!!!


  • Well, it is a typical step in progression you see throughout Kendo. To further elaborate on what I think are common stages in development and progress:

    People start kendo with great interest/expectations then...

    they quit after a couple of practices when they find it isn't for them (not as expected)
    they quit after getting a bogu (they don't like getting hit, etc etc)
    they quit/stay at shodan (best achievement possible for them, time to move on)
    they quit/stay at sandan (can't get yondan for X reason)

    but once you achieve yondan, people stay at different ranks for personal reasons. Few people stay at nidan because there isn't much more required understanding of Kendo at that stage. You are just improving what you know and refining your waza.


  • I don't know if there's a mental block or not because I'm not nearly shodan, but the easiest point of view would be that at shodan you HAVE to wait two years (right?) before another exam, whereas there was never such a big period of time between kyu-exams...


  • i have to admit, i see a lot of shodans, sandan and above, but very few nidan...

    maybe because there's a mental block? a lot of people's goals are to reach shodan, so when they do, they don't have the same motivation to go on..







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